Jill Dando it could have been me, says Fiona Fullerton

As the mystery of Jill Dando’s death reopens, the former actress Fiona Fullerton reveals how a stalker who came to her door intent on murder made her flee the limelight

I was in an estate agent's office with a girlfriend when I heard that Jill Dando had been shot on her own doorstep. My friend says that I turned pale and barely opened my mouth for the rest of the day. Like everyone else, I was horrified that such a lovely woman should have been so brutally extinguished. But there was more to it than that.

I, too, had been confronted by a murderous madman on my doorstep and the memory of that day - never far from the surface - suddenly clouded everything.

A few days later the telephone rang. On the line was the detective inspector in charge of the Dando case. He asked me a number of questions about what had happened to me. It was clear that he was trying to establish parallels between the man who had come to my home (although he was now safely behind